Environmental protection paper slippers

ABSTRACT

Environmental protection paper slippers primarily applicable for usage in hotels, guesthouses, recreation establishments, and so on, whereby the paper slippers facilitate recycling, and are thus in accord with environmental protection. The paper slipper primarily comprises a sole and a vamp; and is characterized in that: the sole and the vamp are fabricated from corrugated paper and kraft. Two ends of the vamp are bonded to a top surface or a bottom surface of the sole, and an anti-cut structure is defined on a front and a rear edge of the vamp, and frictional wales are further defined on the top surface and the bottom surface of the sole. According to aforementioned structure, apart from the environmental protection paper slippers facilitating recycling, and are thus in accord with environmental protection, moreover, the paper slippers are provided with effectiveness for comfortable wearing, and thereby achieve objective of saving on manufacturing costs.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

(a) Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to environmental protection paperslippers, and more particularly to the paper slippers that facilitaterecycling, and are thus in accord with environmental protection, andmoreover, the paper slippers are provided with effectiveness forcomfortable wearing, and thereby achieve objective of saving onmanufacturing costs.

(b) Description of the Prior Art

Present economic development has accordingly heightened demands forincreased personal hygiene and health care, and in order to conform tosuch demands for hygiene, traditional model of recycling, cleaning andsterilization of many products before being reused has been abandoned,and a course whereby the product is disposed of after usage and notrecycled is implemented instead. Hence, in accordance with such demands,manufacturers have developed many correlated disposable products, forinstance, paper underwear and underpants for use when traveling, andpaper slippers are one item among the many disposable products.Traditional slippers are provided with a tread defined on a sole of theslippers, and, according to physics, enhances friction, which moresimply describes a fact that the tread provides an antislip effect.However, the tread defined on the sole of traditional slippers cannot befound on the paper slippers, which are constructed to include the sole 1a and a vamp 2 a (see FIG. 7). Although the paper slippers areconvenient and hygienic, and are disposed of after usage, however, noantislip tread is defined on the soles of the paper slippers, and thushidden dangers lurk for a person wearing the paper slippers.

When persons are staying in a hotel, the persons traveling together willvery likely visit room of each other, and the persons will wear thepaper slippers to walk about in. However, if the person wearing thepaper slippers runs, the person will likely have had experience of thepaper slippers falling off after a few steps, resulting in the personhaving to turn back to pick up the paper slippers that have fallen offand slip them back on to the feet again. Such cannot be said to be amajor problem, more direful is when wearing the paper slippers inside abathroom, and because water normally lies on floor of the bathroom,regardless of whether the water splashed onto the floor when washing theface in a washbasin or when taking a bath in a bathtub, such a situationof water lying on the floor of the bathroom foreshadows danger.

Upon the person wearing the paper slippers not defined with the antisliptread steps onto the floor containing a residual of water, there is ahigh probability that the person will misstep, resulting in either aminor accident of the person falling over and spraining the back, andmore seriously could result in the person bumping the head or evenoccurrence of a fatal accident. Hence, aforesaid describes an extremelyserious problem with conventional paper slippers.

Referring to FIG. 8, which shows the conventional paper slipperconstructed by employing press joining of structural members includingthe vamp 2 a, a slipper top 3 a, a slipper interlayer 4 a, and the sole1 a. Hence, during course of manufacture, firstly, glue must beseparately smeared on the slipper top 3 a, the slipper interlayer 4 a,and the sole 1 a respectively, which are thereupon press jointedtogether. Furthermore, in order to prevent front and rear edges of thevamp 2 a from cutting the instep when wearing the paper slippers, a coiledge 21 a must be configured on the front and rear edges of the vamp 2a. However, fabricating the coil edge 21 a requires additionalmulti-layered, complex processing. According to aforementionedstructure, because of the comparatively many structural members of theconventional paper slippers and elaborate manufacturing process, a largeincrease in production costs results thereof, and thus selling the paperslippers at a popular price is difficult, which thereby runs counter tocharacteristic of the paper slippers being recycled after usage.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

In light of the aforementioned shortcomings in structure of conventionalpaper slippers, the inventor of the present invention, havingaccumulated many years of personal experience in related art,attentively and circumspectively researched improvement on suchshortcomings before finally designing new environmental protection paperslippers of the present invention.

A primary objective of the present invention is to provide the paperslippers that facilitate recycling, and are thus in accord withenvironmental protection, and moreover, achieve objective of saving onmanufacturing costs.

In order to achieve the aforementioned objective, the environmentalprotection paper slippers of the present invention are primarilyapplicable for usage in hotels, guesthouses, recreation establishments,and so on, whereby the paper slippers facilitate recycling, and are thusin accord with environmental protection. The paper slipper primarilycomprises a sole and a vamp, the vamp being bonded to the sole, andcharacterized in that: the sole and the vamp are fabricated fromcorrugated paper and kraft. Two ends of the vamp are bonded to a topsurface or a bottom surface of the sole, and an anti-cut structure isdefined on a front and rear edge of the vamp, and frictional wales arefurther defined on the top surface and the bottom surface of the sole.

According to aforementioned structure, the environmental protectionpaper slippers of the present invention facilitate recycling, and arethus in accord with environmental protection, and moreover, the paperslippers are provided with effectiveness for comfortable wearing, andthereby achieve objective of saving on manufacturing costs.

To enable a further understanding of the said objectives and thetechnological methods of the invention herein, the brief description ofthe drawings below is followed by the detailed description of thepreferred embodiments.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 shows an exploded elevational view according to the presentinvention.

FIG. 2 shows an assembled elevational view according to the presentinvention.

FIG. 3 shows a bottom view according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 shows an elevational view of another embodiment according to thepresent invention.

FIG. 5 shows a bottom view of another embodiment according to thepresent invention.

FIG. 6 shows a partial cross sectional view according to the presentinvention.

FIG. 7 shows an elevational view of a conventional paper slipper.

FIG. 8 shows an exploded elevational view of the conventional paperslipper.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

Referring to FIGS. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, which show an environmentalprotection paper slipper of the present invention primarily constructedto comprise a sole 1, and a vamp 2 that bestrides the instep, and whichis characterized in that:

The sole 1 and the vamp 2 are fabricated from corrugated paper andkraft. Two ends of the vamp 2 are bonded to a top surface or a bottomsurface of the sole 1, and an anti-cut structure 20 is defined on afront and rear edge of the vamp 2, whereby the anti-cut structureassumes a wave form configuration. Frictional wales 11 are furtherdefined on the top surface and the bottom surface of the sole 1.

According to aforementioned structure, the anti-cut structure 20 isformed in one cut by a full automatic cutting machine, and thefrictional wales 11 are molded in one punch from a punch mold, andthereby realizes saving on manufacturing costs. Furthermore, theanti-cut structure 20 is able to adjust and flex to change in curve ofthe instep of a person when walking, thereby preventing the instep frombeing subjected to sharp edges of the corrugated paper or the kraft, andthus the instep is averted from being cut therefrom. The environmentalprotection paper slippers of the present invention thus realize a goodprotective effect, and provide greater comfort for a wearer of the paperslippers.

In addition, because two ends of the vamp 2 of the present invention aredirectly bonded to the top surface or the bottom surface of the sole 1,and because the structural members of the present invention onlycomprise the sole 1 and the vamp 2, accordingly, production costs andselling price is effectively kept to a minimum, thereby theenvironmental protection paper slippers of the present invention areable to genuinely achieve characteristic of recycling after usage.

Furthermore, because of the frictional wales 11 of the environmentalprotection paper slippers of the present invention defined on the topsurface of the sole 1, friction between the foot and the paper slippersis thereby increased, thus when wearing and walking about in the paperslippers, the paper slippers will not easily fall off the feet. However,more importantly are the frictional wales 11 defined on the bottomsurface of the sole 1, which are able to increase friction between thepaper slippers and the floor, and thus, even if the person wearing thepaper slippers runs about on a wet and slippery floor, because of thefrictional wales 11 the person will not easily trip and fall down, andthereby guarantees safety of the wearer. Moreover, the frictional wales11 of the top surface and the bottom surface of the sole 1 are molded inone punch by means of a mold, therefore, similarly is able toeffectively reduce production costs.

In conclusion, the environmental protection paper slippers of thepresent invention assuredly achieves effectiveness of preventing thewearer from tripping and falling down when wearing the paper slippers,and provides for comfortable wearing thereof, as well as effectivelyreducing the production costs, and thus the selling price is kept to aminimum. Furthermore, the environmental protection paper slippers of thepresent invention are provided with practicability and advancement,accordingly, the inventor proposes a patent application herein.

It is of course to be understood that the embodiments described hereinis merely illustrative of the principles of the invention and that awide variety of modifications thereto may be effected by persons skilledin the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the inventionas set forth in the following claims.

1. Environmental protection paper slippers comprising a sole, and a vampthat bestrides the instep, and which is characterized in that: the soleand the vamp are fabricated from corrugated paper and kraft, and twoends of the vamp are bonded to a bottom surface of the sole.
 2. Theenvironmental protection paper slippers according to claim 1, whereinthe two ends of the vamp are bonded to a top surface of the sole.
 3. Theenvironmental protection paper slippers according to claim 1, wherein ananti-cut structure is defined on a front edge of the vamp, whereby theanti-cut structure assumes a wave form configuration.
 4. Theenvironmental protection paper slippers according to claim 1, wherein ananti-cut structure is defined on a rear edge of the vamp, whereby theanti-cut structure assumes a wave form configuration.
 5. Theenvironmental protection paper slippers according to claim 1, whereinfrictional wales are defined on the top surface of the sole.
 6. Theenvironmental protection paper slippers according to claim 1, whereinfrictional wales are defined on the bottom surface of the sole.